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Empirical Tests of Optimal Cognitive Distance

Wuyts, S.H.K.; Colombo, M.; Dutta, S.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

This article provides empirical tests of the hypothesis of optimal cognitive distance , proposed by Nooteboom (1999, 2000), in two distinct empirical settings.Variety of cognition, needed for learning, has two dimensions: the number of agents with different cognition, and differences in...

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : An Analysis of Multi-Media and Biotechnology

Gilsing, V.A.; Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

and strength of ties in innovation networks.We study both exploration and exploitation networks in the Dutch multimedia … and pharmaceutical biotechnology industry.We find support for most of our hypotheses but not all.These findings, in line …

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The Industrial and Social Dynamics of Retailing, and Effects of Opening Hours

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

and consequences. Among other things, it includes innovation in the form of the emergence and diffusion of successive … novel types of shop (including self-service), relations between large and small firms in innovation and diffusion, change of …

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The social and industrial dynamics of retailing an evolutionary reconstruction

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

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The Dynamics of a General Purpose Technology in a Research and Assimilation Model

Nahuis, R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1998

Where is the productivity growth from the IT revolution? Why did the skill premium rise sharply in the early eighties? Were these phenomena related? This paper examines these questions in a general equilibrium model of growth. Technological progress in firms is driven by research aimed at...

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Density and Strength of Ties in Innovation Networks : A Competence and Governance View

Nooteboom, B.; Gilsing, V.A. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2005

Taking into account both competence and governance issues, and six dimensions of tie strength, this article argues that in networks for exploration there are good reasons, counter to the thesis of the 'strength of weak ties', for a dense structure of ties that are strong in most dimensions.By...

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Beyond Penrose : A Cognitive Theory of the Firm

Nooteboom, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2006

This paper uses a cognitive theory of firms and organizations, with a focus on learning and innovation.Here, cognition … collaboration between firms, for learning and innovation, in the combination of capabilities between rather than within the firm …

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Competition and Innovation : Pushing Productivity Up or Down?

Brouwer, Erik; van der Wiel, H.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … innovation data from Community Innovation Survey with accounting data to link innovative activities with performance at the … through more innovation. Nonetheless, there exists an inverted U- curve between competition and innovation for the Netherlands …

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Anti-takeover Provisions as a Source of Innovation and Value Creation

Humphery-Jenner, M. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

-creating takeovers and increase innovation and do not induce agency con icts of managerial entrenchment. This implies that for innovative …

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Innovation, growth and welfare-improving cycles

Francois, P.; Shi, S. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

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